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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.
Gertrude Atherton
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Gertrude Atherton
Age: 90 †
Born: 1858
Born: January 14
Died: 1948
Died: June 14
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Non-Fiction Writer
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San Francisco County
California
Gertrude Franklin Atherton
Asmodeus
Frank Lin
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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Here is a simple recipe to begin with. Get up every morning with the set intention of writing and go to your desk and sit there for three hours, whether you accomplish anything or not. Before long you will find that you are writing madly, not waiting for inspiration.
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The grief of childhood is terrible while it lasts, it is so abandoned and so all-possessing.
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the only revenge worth having is success.
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there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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Men are not amusing during the shooting season but, after all, my dear, men were not especially designed to amuse women.
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Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?
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Nowhere can it rain harder and with a more tiresome persistence than in California during the brief season when it rains at all.
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Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.
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power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.
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Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.
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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.
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Success is a great healer.
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... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
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when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.
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stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.
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The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.
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The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one enjoys itself getting dyspepsia and the other does not.
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